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It wasn’t working in the GT run and then we went through on Sat night and it was working.

We solved it with some encouragement from the DM (he was doing impromptu lore checks for random classes on the last minute of the room, since we were close)

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We eventually figured out the phrase at the top was an anagram but were having trouble putting it together. I noticed “Poke” but didn’t know what to touch. The answer was eventually “Poke Key Stone”, which the DM led us to touching the “stone” above the door, which solved the room. We probably got here because we noticed touching the skulls was giving us one point of damage and figured we had to touch/poke something.

Now that I’m typing it out I realize the anagram doesn’t fit. But the solution was something like that at least.

I recall once associating the skull to the letters, reading from left to right skulls say something like “poke keystone.” There was a skull on the keystone. Simple touch it. Our GM said, once successful, we had to read the skulls then poke it. I’m guessing this is to prevent someone who didn't understand the solution and randomly touching the the skull and thereby solving the puzzle without solving it.

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The room I'm thinking of was the one with skulls embedded in the wall with glowing eyes.

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Each eye was either solid red, or had a black circle (dot) or a black hyphen (dash).

There was a banner over the door saying:

"Use Key to Open"

Each letter on the banner had either 0, 1, or 2 triangles inside it. The triangles were either small or large.

We figured one of the triangles meant a dot, and one meant a dash, and none meant a solid red eye.

Based on this we matched up each skull to one of the letters E, K, N, O, P, S, T, U, Y.

We then tried a few things, like touching the skulls to spell out "Key," or the whole "Use Key to Open" phrase.

We never got it, the DM said something like: "You've done a good job associating the letters with the skulls, but something is missing."

Any idea what the solution was here?

You were very close... here is the answer...

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After you figure out what skull represents what letter. If you read the skulls from left to right (starting at the very leftmost one that was around the corner, and ignoring skulls that were blank, or not lit up) they spelled "poke keystone". I didn't know this until it was explained to me, but a keystone is the one at the top of an archway of stones. So if you touched the stone directly above the doorway it opened. The DM said you needed to actually solve the puzzle too and not just randomly touch it.

Somehow my group got caught up and stuck thinking the skulls spelled "Poke Keys Tone." We kept repeating it out loud for like five minutes and puzzling over what a Key's Tone was until someone finally realized what we had done.